Robert Boswell Quotes

No sane man will dance.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you're going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.